CVE-2019-18397
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 13
Latest updateMay 24
Description
A buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi.c of GNU FriBidi through 1.0.7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code by delivering crafted text content to a user, when this content is then rendered by an application that uses FriBidi for text layout calculations. Examples include any GNOME or GTK+ based application that uses Pango for text layout, as this internally uses FriBidi for bidirectional text layout…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages2 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, 9.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-fcm8-q275-jqv2: A buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi↗2022-05-24
CVEList▶
CVE-2019-18397: A buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi↗2019-11-13
OSV▶
CVE-2019-18397: A buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi↗2019-11-13
OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities↗2019-03-05
📋Vendor Advisories
3💬Community
3Bugzilla▶
CVE-2019-18397 fribidi: stack based buffer overflow in function fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() in lib/fribidi-bidi.c leads to denial of service [epel-6]↗2019-12-09
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2019-18397 fribidi: stack based buffer overflow in function fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() in lib/fribidi-bidi.c leads to denial of service [fedora-all]↗2019-12-09
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2019-18397 fribidi: buffer overflow in fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() in lib/fribidi-bidi.c leading to denial of service and possible code execution↗2019-11-05